ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
“If, deep down, you didn’t truly believe you were going to make it, you’d hang it up and go down the path of least resistance”
Basically, no one had done it without the track. Our cycling federation is very track focused. It’s a great programme with a lot of resources but it wasn’t their priority to develop road guys. We had enough, as young riders, to develop, but to come to Europe and get opportunities was really hard – it was hard to show you were worth coming onto a team. You have to remember, when you leave New Zealand to go to Europe, you’re going to the other side of the world, and it’s hard, financially. You don’t want to be one of those horror stories, where guys go to club teams and end up in an absolute mess. You want to go somewhere you can actually get better – not just race a kermesse in Belgium and go no further. So you end up probing for opportunities that just aren’t there. You think ‘what do I do?’, and you come
